REMARKS. 
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lying dead by the side of the ship. Frederick Cuvier, 
the brother of the illustrious Baron, in the most inter- 
esting and learned work that ever appeared, on the 
history of whales in general, entitled “ de V Histoire 
Naturelle des Ctiaces ,” and which was published so late 
as 1836, after stating the difficulty of procuring a cor- 
rect drawing of the sperm whale, on account of those 
which have been stranded on various parts of Europe 
becoming so much misshapen from their own weight, 
while lying in the mud, and moreover from their being 
surrounded by great numbers of eager spectators, re- 
marks, that “figures drawn from whales when floating 
freely, would be in a condition to inspire more confi- 
dence, but if such figures are possible, we believe that 
science, as yet, does not possess any.” A paragraph, in 
the truth of which every person must agree, so far as its 
first part extends, but when the outline of the one given 
by Captain Col nett, which we suppose was taken from 
nature, with the faithful and excellent plate by Huggins, 
from a drawing made in the South Seas over the dead 
animal, and also the sketch, which was given in the 
former edition of this work, taken as it was, very care- 
fully under the same circumstances, are considered, co- 
inciding as they all do in every particular, the deficiency 
complained of by F. Cuvier^ would seem to have been 
amply supplied. 
To prove the great discrepancy that exists between 
the imaginary figure of F. Cuvier, and that taken from 
actual observation, it will only be necessary for the 
satisfaction of those personally unacquainted with the 
